Good science provides correctable‚ reversible‚ and testable information. Pseudoscience on the other hand does none of this‚ yet still passes as good science because it is complicated by deceiving statistics (Price‚ October 13). Racial positivists such as J. Philippe Rushton‚ Francis ...
A total lunar eclipse can last up to nearly two hours, while a total solar eclipse lasts only a few minutes at any given place, because the Moon's shadow is smaller. Also, unlike solar eclipses, lunar eclipses are safe to view without any eye protection or special precautions. Continue...
Science-based Medicine Ask MetaFilter Supplement Geek This MLM-marketed nostrum purports to increase the efficiency of two (of the many) body's antioxidants, and has been "shown to enhance the redox signaling processes involved in [oxidative] damage control." There is, of course, no scientific...
Water clusters: the science Chemists have long recognized water as a substance having unusual and unique properties that one would not at first sight expect from a small molecule having the formula H2O. It is generally agreed that the special properties of water stem from the tendency of its mo...
This is Jennifer’s blog, and Jennifer is a scientist. So most of the posts here are about science in one way or another. And I love that, because I love science—the idea of it, the practice of it, and the success of it. So when we talk about irrationality and pseudoscience, it...
the half truth and misrepresentation. One claim made by Ray Greek in his bookSpecious Scienceis that Alexander Fleming, who discovered Penicillin in 1928, was dissuaded from following up on his discovery because of misleading results from tests in mice and rabbits which convinced him that the anti...